Crash
by J.G. BallardIn this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish
tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare
angel of the highways" experiments with erotic atrocities among crash
victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and
fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens
toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth
Taylor.

Also by Ballard:Empire of the Sun
Concrete Island
The Kindness of Women

Artificial
Things
by Karen JoyFowlerThis remarkable collection by the award-winning Karen
Joy Fowler includes thirteen of the author's most acclaimed stories, including
"Praxis," about a theater where the real and unreal collide; "The
Poplar Street Study," a darkly comic account of an alien invasion;
and "The Gate of Ghosts," a poignant story of a child's journey
to a strange and deadly world.
"Fowler has carved her own niche  this is the quality of story
that awards exist to honor." Science Fiction Review
"A stunning first collection, with some real treasures." Ursula Le Guin

Also by Fowler:Sarah Canary

The
Kin of Ata are Waiting for You
by Dorothy BryantThe kin of Ata live only for the dream. Their work, their
art, their love are designed in and by their dreams, and their only aim
is to dream higher dreams. Into the world of Ata comes a desperate man who
is first subdued and then led on the spiritual journey that, sooner or later,
all of us must make. This book itself is such a journey. It has been called
a love story, science fiction, Jungian myth and utopian allegory. It takes
place in the tradition of fine visionary novels.

Also by Bryant:Ella Price's Journal
The Garden of Eros
Killing Wonder

Sleeping
in Flame
by Jonathan CarrollRicocheting between the haunted chic of Vienna and the
mystical crassness of Los Angeles, between the world of desire and the landscape
of dreams, Sleeping in Flame is a hypnotic literary novel with irresistible
elements of fantasy and magic.
It is the story of Walker Easterling, who saves a woman's life only to place
her in infinitely greater danger by falling in love with her. It's the story
of Maris York, an androgynous beauty who arouses incinerating passion in
the men around her. It is a novel populated by a shaman with a fondness
for sandwiches, an autistic Adonis, and tiny man as powerful and ravenously
jealous as the God of the Old Testament.

The
Muse Asylum
by DavidCzuchlewskiEnter The Muse Asylum and watch the lives of three recent
college graduates become entangled by romantic and literary obsessions,
and by their search to uncover the identity of the great American writer
Horace Jacob Little: Jake Burnett, a young reporter and reverent fan of
the reclusive author, determined to make a name for himself by unmasking
the legend; Andrew Wallace, a disturbed genius and inmate of the Overlook
Psychiatric Institute for artists, who is convinced that Horace Jacob Little
is plotting against him; and Lara Knowles, the girl they both love.
The three try to break through the shadows and tricks of the enigmatic author,
only to find themselves caught in a twisted game of reflections and reversals,
where each seems to be pursuing another  for love, for success, or
for some far more sinister purpose.

The Muse Asylum
is David Czuchlewski's first novel.

A
Barrel of Laughs,
A Vale of Tears
by Jules Feiffer"A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears scores
10 out of 10 on the demanding Pinkwater Scale... For certain people, I think
it may become a special, personal book  they'll take along when they
go to college and resort to it as comfort reading. As adults, they'll share
it with best friends and children. Not a bad fate for a book." Daniel Pinkwater
"Jules Feiffer follows The Man in the Ceiling with another winner,
this time a rollicking medieval farce that pokes fun at medieval farces
 and just about everything else  while managing at the same
time to be hilarious, engaging, and thoroughly entertaining." Family Life

Werewolves
in Their Youth
by Michael Chabon Nine stunning short stories from the Pulitzer Prize Winner
for Kavalier
and Clay that take us into the hearts and
lives of young people and people in mid-life caught in emotional moments
of turning point or change. Brilliant, frightening, funny, these stories
are shot through with Chabon's unique vision and uncanny understanding of
our mysteries and nightmares, hilarity and pain.

The
Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
by Tim BurtonWitty and macabre all at once, this cast of gruesomely
sympathetic children are misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love
and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. Lovingly lurid illustrations
evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of these dark yet simple beings 
hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and
let's us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly, anyway).

A
Dozen Black Roses
by Nancy A. CollinsDeadtown. A place the damned call home. An urban quagmire
greedily devouring lost souls, its bloodstained streets haunted by the living
dead. In an ancient war between two gluttonous vampires, Deadtown is both
the battleground and buffet table.
But all that's about to change. Into the carnage walks Sonja Blue, a vampire
and vampire hunter, hell-bent on sending Deadtown's ruling fiends to the
graves they've eluded for centuries. And if the rest of Deadtown gets in
her way, well... she'll make damn sure the place lives up to its name.

Poseidon's
Gold
by Lindsey DavisAfter six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus
Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked.
And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his
aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that
he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus,
are true.
Then the chief tarnisher of Festu's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes
the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice.
The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of his doom-laden
labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as
seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions...

Wasp
Factory
by Iain BanksMeet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional
to say the least:
"Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my younger brother Paul,
for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth,
and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or
less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody
in years, and don't intend to ever again.
It was just a stage I was going through."
"One of the top 100 novels of the century." The Independent
"A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency." Times Literary Supplement
"The Wasp Factory is a first novel not only of tremendous promise,
but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps." Punch

The
Concrete Blonde
by Michael ConnellyThe Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had
stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces
of his female victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry
Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.
But the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong
man  an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim
is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature.
So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very
much alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will
take Harry from the hard edges of the LA night to the last place he ever
wanted to go  the darkness of his own heart.

Also by Connelly:The Black Echo
Trunk Music
The Last Coyote

From
the Dust Returned
by Ray BradburyThe Eternal Family has lived for centuries in a house
of legend and mystery in upper Illinois  and they are not
like other Midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their
children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before
the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egyptian sands. And some sleep
in beds with lids.

Deus
Irae
by Philip K. Dick
and Roger ZelaznyWhat chance has Tibor McMasters  one limbless heretic
 against the awesome power of the legendary Deus Irae, the wrathful
entity behind World War III? Commissioned to paint the deity's likeness,
Tibor must first find him. And to do that he must travel across the nightmare
landscape of the post-holocaust world, braving its terrifying mutations
while his Christian companion acts on orders to sabotage his mission.

Also by Dick:The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Lying,
Cheating, and Stealing
edited by Sara Nickles
Who wants to walk the straight and narrow all the time? Certainly not the
writers featured in this raucous anthology. Laced with illicit tales and
juicy confessions, Lying, Cheating, and Stealing
will remind you just how good it feels to finally get what you want 
in bed, in the bank, and just in the nick of time.
Some of the featured writers are: Woody Allen, Ann Landers, Groucho Marx,
Jon Carroll, and Mark Twain.

Also edited by Nickles:Drinking, Smoking,
& Screwing

The
Between
by Tananarive DueWhen Hilton was a boy, his aged grandmother saved him
from drowning by pulling him out of a treacherous ocean current, sacrificing
her life for his. Now, thirty years later, Hilton begins to think his borrowed
time is running out. His wife, the only elected African-American judge in
Dade County, Florida, has begun receiving hate mail from a man she once
prosecuted, and Hilton's sleep is plagued by nightmares more horrible than
any he has ever experienced. As he battles both the psychotic stalking his
family and the unseen enemy that haunts his sleep, Hilton's sense of reality
is slipping away. Shocking and utterly convincing,
The Between is a novel about a man desperately trying to hold on to the
people and life he loves but may have already lost, and it holds readers
suspended between the real and the surreal until the final moment of chilling
resolution.

Rubicon
Beach
by Steve EricksonHaunted by his past, a political prisoner under police
surveillance wanders a ravaged, flooded Los Angeles that floats free of
time, where strange music bubbles up through the cracks in the asphalt.
There he sights a mysterious young woman in the act of murder, and his pursuit
of her leads him deep into a world of betrayed dreams, decayed meanings,
and abandoned passions  beyond America and past the Twentieth Century,
to the far shores of Rubicon Beach. Infused with a highly charged poetry,
this is the novel that established Steve Erickson as one of the most original
and visionary American writers of his generation.
"Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back
from the nocturnal side of reality." Thomas Pynchon

Also by Erickson:Days Between Stations
Tours of the Black ClockArc d'X

I
Was a Teenage Fairy
by Francesca Lia BlockIn this mesmerizing postmodern fairy tale, critically
acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block distills elements of fantasy and realism
into an intoxicating blend of striking imagery and raw emotion.
This is the story of Barbie Marks, who dreams of being the one behind the
camera, not some barely flesh-and-blood version of the plastic doll she
was named after. It is the story of Griffin Tyler, whose androgynous beauty
hides the dark pain within him. And finally, it is the story of Mab, a pinkie-sized,
magenta-haired, straight-talking fairy who may or may not be real.
With the same lush, electrifying prose that made Weetzie
Bat a cult classic, Francesca Lia Block concocts
a potent brew of magic and transformation to stir the soul, revealing that
love can heal the deepest scars.

To
Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Phillip José FarmerAll those who ever lived on earth have found themselves
resurrected  healthy, young, and naked as newborns  on the banks
of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food,
but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions
of people from every period of Earth's history  and prehistory 
must start again,
Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to glimpse the incredible
way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the
renowned nineteenth-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a
remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the
Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), and English-speaking
Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and wise extraterrestrial, Burton
sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's
mysterious benefactor's, and learn the true purpose  innocent or evil
 of the Riverworld...

Also by Farmer:The Fabulous Riverboat
The Stone God Awakens
The Gates of Creation

Coldheart
Canyon
by Clive BarkerHollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett. But time is
catching up with him. He doesn't have the perfect looks he had last year.
After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd needs somewhere to hide away for a
few months while his scars heal.
As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon  a corner of the
city so secret it doesn't appear on nay map  Tammy Lauper, the president
of his fan club, comes to the City of Angels determined to solve the mystery
of Todd's disappearance. Her journey will not be an easy one. The closer
she gets to Todd the more Coldheart Canyon's secrets she uncovers: the ghost
of the A-list stars who came to the Canyon for wild parties; Katya Lupi,
the cold-hearted, now-forgotten star for whom the Canyon was named, who
is alive and exquisite after a hundred years; and finally, the door in the
bowels of Katya's dream palace that reputedly open up to another world,
the Devil's Country. No one who has ever ventured to this dark, barbaric
corner of hell has returned without their souls shadowed by what they'd
seen and done.

Psychoshop
by Alfred Bester & Roger ZelaznyThe Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business
in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last
day of the cosmos. You might call it a pawnshop, but its sign has three
gold infinity symbols instead of the usual balls, and its Latin motto, Res
Ullus, translates as "anything." This is the Psychoshop, where
you can dump any unwanted aspect of your spirit as long as you exchange
it for something else  arcane knowledge, a change of luck, or a sixth
sense. Just remember: All sales are final.
In this genuinely mind-boggling novel, two of the most unfettered talents
in speculative fiction envision a commercial establishment that attracts
customers from Edgar Allan Poe to a sorcerer intent on fabricating the Beast
of Revelations. Brimming with wit and imaginative bravado, scandalously
sexy, and fabulously strange, Psychoshop is the first-ever collaboration
between two winners of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Grandmaster Award.

The
Best of Roald DahlIf Stephen King could write with murderous concision,
he might have come up with "The Landlady," the story of a boarding
house with an oddly talented proprietess and a small but permanent
clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written "Pig,"
a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty
Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in "Man
From the South," who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher
knife.
But all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius
for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.

Sharpe's
Company
by Bernard CornwellLooming on the border of Portugal and Spain in the fortress
of Badajoz. To lead an assault on its thick, sheer walls and battlements
is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead one. Inside the walls are his wife
and daughter, and only he can save them. Outside is the misshapen, vengence-crazed
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, a man determined to kill Sharpe. Sharpe knows
that in the heat of battle only the cold steel of his battered sword and
the ruthless bloodlust if a soldier at war will protect him from the danger
of both sides.

Also by Cornwell:Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Gold
Sharpe's Honor

The
Complete Fuzzy
by H. BeamPiperThree classic novels, one treasured volume! More than
three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's best-selling science fiction novel Little
Fuzzy was published for the first time, captivating
readers everywhere. Now, three of Piper's delightful Fuzzy
books are available for the first time.
From Little Fuzzy,
our first introduction to the furry creatures, who proved themselves to
be not just cute little animals but an intelligent, independent race...
to Fuzzy Sapiens, the
sequel that tells the story of the Fuzzie's fight against extinction...
to Fuzzies and Other People,
the legendary lost manuscript of H. Beam Piper that was discovered in a
basement trunk after his tragic death... these three books come together
for the first time to create a charming and exciting science fiction omnibus.